Where does “kičma” come from?
kičma (Serbo-Croatian) comes from Ottoman Turkish قیچ, from Proto-Turkic *kïč.
kičma (Serbo-Croatian): spine; backbone
Ancestry of “kičma”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Ottoman Turkish | قیچ | — |
| 2 | Proto-Turkic | *kïč | — |